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.IOlIN A. IIOFF, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORV TO vWILLIAM T. ISLAINE, OF SAME PLACE.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 615,023, dated November 29, 1898.

Application filed February 14, 1898. Serial No. 670,293. (No model.)

T0 a/ZZ whom, it ntcny concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. HOFF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the count)7 of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Advertising Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my improvement is to provide for utilizing the cash-register as a medium of advertisement display.

The cash-register in various forms is quite extensively introduced among tradespeople` and ordinarily occupies a conspicuous place wherever it is used, thus peculiarly' adapting it for the advantageous display, at small cost, of attractive advertising matter.

Stated in a general way, my improvement consists in so combining with a cash-register an advertisement-holder that it shall be brought into position for displaying it by operating the cash-register.

To accomplish my purpose, my improvement may be applied in any desired form to any of the different characters of cash-registers, though for the sake of convenience I hereinafter describe it as provided in a particular but peculiarly desirable form in connection with a novel construction of cashregister of the autograph type, and it is so shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a broken view, in end elevation, of an autograph cash-register equipped with my improvement; Fig. 2, a longitudinal vertical section of the same; Fig. 3, a perspective view of one form of advertisementholder; and Fig. 4, a similar but broken View, on a reduced scale, ofthe device as represented in Fig. l.

A is an autograph cash-register, that shown involving a case A', having a slot o in its cover, through which to write upon the paper on a roll B, supported below the slot/u in a register-compartment within the case, containing also a roll of paper B', from which to supply the roll B, and to one side of which register-compartment is another compartment containing a drawer C. This particular device is operated by mov-ing the drawer, and I utilize the drawer for my purpose of advertisement display as follows:

To the top of the case A',within the latter near one end, is fulorumed a bell-crank lever r, carrying on one arm au advertisementholder (shown as a curved frame D) to be projected from and withdrawn into the case through a slot p in its top, the frame being adapted to receive and hold a card (not shown) between its back and front sides to: be entered at D2, Fig. 3. D is another advertisement-holding frame, shown in rectangular form, with legs o at its opposite lower ends depending through elongated openings o' in the top of the case A to be supported within the. latter on a rock-shaft n, extending transversely across the case and journaled in its opposite sides. This rock-shaft carries at one end an arm n', connected from its free end by a link n2 with the adjacent arm of the bellcrank r, and the pivotal joint of the link n2, with the bell-crank, is, when the drawer is closed,within a hook-shaped socket-piece m, projecting from the inner end of the drawer. When the draweris pulled out through part of its movement, the socket-piece m engages the bell-crank arm in its path to turn downward the arm thereof, carrying the holder D,where by the latter is withdrawn into the cash-register case. The same movement of the drawer by the connection of the bell-crank with the shaft n bends the joint of the link n2 with the arm 'n/ to move them to the relative positions in which they are represented in Fig. et, thereby turning the shaft n to raise the holder D into the upright position in which it is represented in Figs. l and et. In closing the drawer a projection m2 on its inner end encounters an inward projection m on the bell-crank r and turns the bell-crank on its fulcrum to project the holder D through the top of the case A', thereby bringing the link n2 and arm n into the relative positions in which they are represented in Fig. 2 and turning the shaft rt to lower the holder D flatwise against the top of the case.

It is within my invention to display in succession any desired form of advertisementholders, however they may be arranged to be brought into view in connection with a cashregister by operating it and whatever the type of the cash-register and mode of operating it may be,and for my purpose each of the holders D and Dmaybe regarded byitself as though it were connected with a separate cash-register and as representing a distinct manner of bringing it into and withdrawingit from view. In fact the illustrated mechanisms shown for operating the advertisement-holders and the holders themselves as represented are intended as mere examples of various kinds of holder-operating mechanisms and forms of holders that may be displayed in diiferent ways in connection with cash-registers by operating them.

IVhere the form of frame is, like that represented, such as to permit the advertising matter inserted into it to be readily changed, the advantage is afforded to the advertiser of varying his advertisement at will.

Obviously, if desired, the holder may itself form the matter of advertisement.

By the term cash-register herein employed and used in the appended claims I do not intend to limit my improvement strictly to cash-registers, but intend to include its application also to the variety of registers adapted only to receive entries and furnish copies thereof, as my improvement may be used with such devices as advantageously' as with cash-registers.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In combination with a drawer casing or frame having a transverse slot in its top, a slidable drawer, a bell-crank lever fulcrumed in the casing on a transverse pivot, and having its lower arm operatively connected with the drawer, and a curved frame for holding the advertisement ixedly secured to the upper lever-arm and adapted through the movement of the drawer in one direction to be projected through the slot and without the casing into display position, and to be retracted within the casing through the opposite movement of the drawer,substantiall y as described.

2. In combination with a drawer casing or frame, a drawer, an advertisement-holder D projectable through the top of the case and supported on one arm of a bell-crank fulcrumed in said case, an advertisement-holder D hinged on said case to extend from the top thereof and having an arm n' extending from its hinged portion and connected with the other arm of said bell-crank by a link n2 said other arm extending into the path of and engaged by a projection on said drawer,whereby opening or closing the drawer projects one of said holders into view from the top of the case and withdraws the other holder, substantially as described.

JOHN A. HOFF. In presence of- R. T. SPENCER, DAN. W. LEE. 

